I remember when this place was the gold standard. Amazing culture, people who actually cared. Now, it’s like watching a slow collapse. The good folks are leaving, and those in charge act like we’re just stats on a report. Somewhere along the way, they forgot we’re what keeps this place running. Feels like loyalty doesn’t mean much anymore.
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“ I work at Ford, I ride in a Ford car and Ford-employed wife. Everything I touch is Ford-blue, through and through.”
Dude you need to diversify. Fellow in our group sounded a lot like you. His cars all had the I work at Ford I drive a Ford bumper sticker. Then in 2019 he was Smart redesigned just before he was 55 and didn’t have his 30 years in. Poof went that promised large pension and life time health care. Then in the next layoff his wife who worked at Ford Credit also got cut just before she hit her pension gates. Both were LL6s and had lost their technical skills long ago. Neither found a similarly paid position. One became a Project Manager for a contracting company. The other has become a realtor. Their retirement will be nothing like they had planned.
Good Luck to you.
"I work at Ford, I ride in a Ford car and Ford-employed wife. Everything I touch is Ford-blue, through and through."
Great glad that's working out for you. More power to you. Loyalty works one way when it comes to the employee/employer relationship. If you are a working adult and this is lost on you or you chose to ignore it....you don't have my sympathy.
Yep,all those old people working with people who weren’t born when they started at Ford are the ones that held it together. Anyone just figuring this out? And yes, we said “no.”
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I agree but it cuts both ways. For a long time there were two distinct classes of Ford employees: those with a pension, and those without. Those who had a pension had absolutely no incentive to leave, but those without a pension really had not too much of an incentive to stay.
Slowly they're whittling down the people with pensions, and then the company will be left with employees who have nothing holding them there. I know there will always be people who just can't leave because of visa issues or other reasons, but you will end up with a big chunk of employees who can jump ship at any moment.
You already kind of see that happening, and if the job market picks up, I think you will see an exodus.
Hey 'bleeding Ford blue' -- clearly you are not the sharpest kn--e in the shed!! When Ford comes a cuttin' your whole family's gonna be in tears.....and they will...you can count on it! This is who you work for---you haven't seen how they've chopped up loyal "bleeding Ford Blues" already. Get from under your rock! Nobody's gonna promote you for putting that BS here! You're gonna be blue from the blue
Seriously, are you really just realizing this after all the past years of brutal layoffs of exceptionally talented people? I don't know why anyone would want a career at a dead-end joint this. This ain't it and ain't been it for a very long time! Smell the skunk and get outta here!
@cm You are forgetting 2021 when a whole bunch of older people took the package and an enormous amount of knowledge walked out the door. All of a sudden ideas were being pitched that had been shot down many times in the past by the old timers (because they were just plain d-mb ideas) were being implemented and guess what happened.... pure failure because nobody was left to stand up and say no. The youngsters that took over werent d-mb, they just didnt have the experience and hadnt seen the slight of hand tricks before.
All the good young people are leaving.
If you have a house and kids in schools and a wife that works and the Detroit job market súcks, it’s hard to leave voluntarily.
I work at Ford, I ride in a Ford car and Ford-employed wife. Everything I touch is Ford-blue, through and through.
@OP, if all the good people are leaving but you are still there, why does that tell you?
@a2 - you wen’t right when you were supposed to go left, and ended up at FoMoCo…
Eliminating the pension and making people disposable are the two biggest factors in people no longer being loyal. I've been with the company many years and 2 reasons I stuck around through the hard times (i.e. bad assignments) were #1 pension and #2 I never feared losing my job. I can't blame today's non-pension employees for their mercenary attitudes.
It still is. After a great day, I leave work and as I get into my car, a Ford of course, I chuckle to myself and ask "Where did I go right?".